Valve has announced that it’s bringing back the Saxxy Awards for a third year. As always, the awards will be given to those with exceptional talent in making clips using Source Filmmaker and Team Fortress 2 assets.

Saxxy Awards winners have been announced by Valve, but to find out which short film won for Best Overall you’ll have to tune into the Spike Video Game Awards pre-show December 7, which is next Friday night.

Celebrate the best in Valve-inspired Machinima with the second annual Saxxy Awards, this year given a significant boost by the recent release of the Source Filmmaker. Log into Steam to view and vote on this year’s entrants; you start with a queue of 12, and voting works in a similar way to Steam Greenlight, with […]

I really hope you’re not tired of seeing shorts made with Source Filmmaker, because the free tech just went into open beta, meaning anyone with an Internet connection and two braincells in relatively close orbit can make movies with Valve’s assets. Grab it right here. [image]

Valve’s released 12 videos of the Source Filmmaker in action, showing examples of how captured footage can be manipulated to make stuff as polished as the “Meet the Team” Team Fortress 2 movies on a single PC. Watch it after the break. The software’s being released for free later this year.